Posted on 11/12/2014 2:07:27 PM PST by marshmallow
Marco Tosatti, more and more a guy to follow in the Italian press for analysis of churchy things, has a piece at La Stampa about Card. Pell and how things are going in the Curia.
I don’t have time to translate the whole thing for you right now, but here is a sample:
How annoying Pell is …
There are those in the Curia who are seeking to de-legitimize the straightforward Australian Cardinal, head of the Secretariat of Finance, underscoring his brusque and direct character. Also, because of his speeches and the Synod on the family. But perhaps there are other motives…
Now that the departure of Cardinal Burke from the Signatura has been formalized, taking power away from one of the most straightforward and independent voices, in the Roman Church, in the Curia they are talking about a slithery maneuver to de-legitimize the Australian Cardinal George Pell, head of the new financial and economic Secretariat. He, like Burke, is someone who does not mince his words.
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Francis is nearly 78 years old.
I have been trying to be patient, but I cannot help writing, “I sure miss Pope Benedict XVI”.
That is why I say that this will last at least another two years.
What are you talking about? 78 years old isn’t old. And this guy isn’t going to retire. He’s loving this gig too much.
Convert, repent, retire. Please!
Good! Keep annoying them, Cardinal Pell.
As long as Francis is Pope, the good will be demoted and exiled, and the wicked will be promoted and brought into the inner circle. He is a petty, vindictive man with a cheap mind.
Those of us who are considerably younger than he is can look forward to a Church without him. That’s about all we can do.
Well he said sometime back that he could do at most 2 or 3 years. He said it not me.
That’s true. I wonder whether he’ll follow through on that.
If he converts to the Catholic Faith, then I wouldn’t want him to retire.
Let these Bible-haters slaughter each other!
He’s 78, but some these guys can live to be very old.
Good point but I think his Bozo clown Mass disqualifies him forever.
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